About the lab: My research investigates how wildlife communities are structured and how they respond to global change. We focus on large vertebrate systems, combining ecological theory with data-intensive approaches to bridge local observations and global biodiversity patterns.
Our work integrates three core components:
Our work integrates three core components:
- Trait-based ecology to link species’ functional roles to environmental processes
- Remote sensing and field data to quantify habitat structure across scales
- Advanced statistical modeling to predict community responses to environmental and anthropogenic change
What's new?
July 2026
-New paper "Ground-to-Canopy Monitoring Reveals Hidden Ecological Patterns in Congo Basin Mammals" conducted in collaboration with Dr. Kate Detwiler's lab is out now as an open access article in Ecology! Link here
April 2026
-New paper "Historical legacies shape continental variation in contemporary mammal food webs" led by Dr. Chia Hsieh out now in PNAS! Link here
February 2026
-Promotion to senior research fellow at FAU
November 2025
-Dan joins the editorial board for the IUCN's peer review journal, PARKS: https://parksjournal.com/
September 2025
-Dan's first-author paper "Predicting community interactions under grizzly bear rewilding and anthropogenic change" is published in Biological Conservation. Check it out here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lize1R%7EeaP9%7E
August 2025
-Dan begins teaching Human Morphology and Function as Instructor of Record
-Undergraduate students Mary & Aien join the lab
July 2025
-Field day with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in Holey Land Wildlife Management area
-Dan gives a symposium talk at the Annual Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico funded by the FAU ECOS travel grant
June 2025
-Dan attends Florida Corridor Connect Summit in Orlando
May 2025
-Undergraduate student Jacob joins the lab
February 2025
-New paper in PlosBiology led by Ilaria Greco: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002976
January 2025
-FAU Biological Sciences department visit to Archbold Biological Station
-Dan starts new position at Florida Atlantic University
-New paper "Ground-to-Canopy Monitoring Reveals Hidden Ecological Patterns in Congo Basin Mammals" conducted in collaboration with Dr. Kate Detwiler's lab is out now as an open access article in Ecology! Link here
April 2026
-New paper "Historical legacies shape continental variation in contemporary mammal food webs" led by Dr. Chia Hsieh out now in PNAS! Link here
February 2026
-Promotion to senior research fellow at FAU
November 2025
-Dan joins the editorial board for the IUCN's peer review journal, PARKS: https://parksjournal.com/
September 2025
-Dan's first-author paper "Predicting community interactions under grizzly bear rewilding and anthropogenic change" is published in Biological Conservation. Check it out here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lize1R%7EeaP9%7E
August 2025
-Dan begins teaching Human Morphology and Function as Instructor of Record
-Undergraduate students Mary & Aien join the lab
July 2025
-Field day with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in Holey Land Wildlife Management area
-Dan gives a symposium talk at the Annual Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico funded by the FAU ECOS travel grant
June 2025
-Dan attends Florida Corridor Connect Summit in Orlando
May 2025
-Undergraduate student Jacob joins the lab
February 2025
-New paper in PlosBiology led by Ilaria Greco: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002976
January 2025
-FAU Biological Sciences department visit to Archbold Biological Station
-Dan starts new position at Florida Atlantic University
